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The Annotated Snark, Lewis Carroll, The Hunting of the Snark, HCDJ, Original Illustrations, Henry Holiday, 1962 First Edition, HTF Title

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The Annotated Snark: The Full Text of Lewis Carroll's Great Nonsense Epic The Hunting of the Snark....and the Original Illustraitons.

Introduction and notes by the editor of The Annotated Alice, Martin Gardner.

"The author presents Lewis Carroll's great nonsense epic, The Hunting of the Snark, with a peppering of comments: literary, historical, biographical, semantic, intuitive, mathematical, psychological, philosophical and fanciful.

The eerie hilarity of Carroll's poem takes on a a new resonance and evokes a wilder laughter as we are led aboard that nameless ship to debark with its dedicated crew in pursuit of the Snark. For this mad quest, charted by a map that is "a perfect and absolute blank," Martin Gardner provides the finest possible compass and sextant: humor, erudition and a true scholar's diffidence.

The original illustrations by Henry Holiday are reproduced directly from a rare early edition. The famous suppressed drawing of the Boojum appears here for the first time in a book. A plasm pudding of an appendix contains, among other diversions, the full text of F.C.S. Schiller' tongue in check Commentary on the Snark; and the bibliography includes excerpts from translations into foreign languages."

111 pages, all clean and in great condition.

Dust jacket has seen better days but is still intact, though scuffed.

The front cover beneath the jacket is like new.

A great find for the Lewis Carroll fan in your life!

The Annotated Snark: The Full Text of Lewis Carroll's Great Nonsense Epic The Hunting of the Snark....and the Original Illustraitons.

Introduction and notes by the editor of The Annotated Alice, Martin Gardner.

"The author presents Lewis Carroll's great nonsense epic, The Hunting of the Snark, with a peppering of comments: literary, historical, biographical, semantic, intuitive, mathematical, psychological, philosophical and fanciful.

The eerie hilarity of Carroll's poem takes on a a new resonance and evokes a wilder laughter as we are led aboard that nameless ship to debark with its dedicated crew in pursuit of the Snark. For this mad quest, charted by a map that is "a perfect and absolute blank," Martin Gardner provides the finest possible compass and sextant: humor, erudition and a true scholar's diffidence.

The original illustrations by Henry Holiday are reproduced directly from a rare early edition. The famous suppressed drawing of the Boojum appears here for the first time in a book. A plasm pudding of an appendix contains, among other diversions, the full text of F.C.S. Schiller' tongue in check Commentary on the Snark; and the bibliography includes excerpts from translations into foreign languages."

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